Saturday, March 13, 2010

The maple season has begun here in Nova Scotia! Here is a list of the festivals this year. I ALWAYS try to make it to the Earltown Maple Festival. They hold it in their one room school house and we are fabulously entertained with fiddlers and other musicians:)This year it is on March 27th. It starts at 10 and goes until 6. Best to get there early so you don't have to wait in line too long. It is about an hour and a half drive from Halifax. Earltown is a tiny wee community with a funky general store. I always pop inside and pick up something, even if it is just a small bag of chips.With full bellies, we then head over to Sugar Moon Farm for some maple syrup on the snow and a hike along the tap line up into the sugar bush! Here is a link to their sap journal for this year. If you miss the Earltown festival you can visit SugarMoon any weekend for pancakes and maple fun.Ok, so who's in??

11 comments:

Gosh, I remember when you posted about this last year... has it really been a year?! I just bought my maple syrup from the health shop the other day. I'm sure it's cheaper where you are! but nothing else will do on my porridge ;-)

We have a Sugar Maple Festival here, but we have never gone. I'm not much of an outdoor winter person and it's still cold and yukky out. Maybe next year we will give it a try. It always sounds like fun.

I have several good memories of visiting sugar shacks in Quebec with my mom. It's such a pleasure to enjoy a plate of warm pancakes with fresh syrup on top or a Popsicle stick or toothpick dipped in iced taffy. Glad you were able to have such a good day.

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